Verne C. Babcock dates back to the fall of 1907, at Bangor, Michigan, where he cracked up in the
take-off in a plane of his own design. In 1909 he soloed again, on a Wright-type built by himself at Seattle. And
Floyd Smith tells of seeing him hop pushers at Dominguez in 1913 and at Venice in 1916. His present
occupation is aeronautic engineer of the Babcock & Vicek Aircraft Company, of Akron